Alpheus rapacida De Man, 1908

Dehghani, Amir, Sari, Alireza & Naderloo, Reza, 2019, Annotated checklist of the snapping shrimps of the genus Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran, Zootaxa 4544 (4), pp. 479-504 : 490-491

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:94D88B54-FDE2-4E4B-8E29-CE91B0192E0B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5255816
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/730587B4-FF86-3C17-FF06-F984FA0FFEE3
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Alpheus rapacida De Man, 1908
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Treatment

Alpheus rapacida De Man, 1908 View in CoL

Alpheus rapacida De Man, 1908: 105 View in CoL . Alpheus View in CoL rapacida— De Man, 1911: 324; Johnson, 1962: 53; Tiwari, 1963: 302; Banner & Banner, 1966a: 118; Johnson, 1979: 40; Banner & Banner, 1978: 228; 1982: 160; 1985: 30; Chace, 1988: 51; Anker & De Grave, 2016: 364.

Material examined. PG: 2 males, 3 ovig. females ( ZUTC 6694 ), Hormuz I., in muddy bottoms, Coll. S. Ebrahimnezhad and A. Dehghani, 10 Oct. 2017 ; GO: 2 males, 1 female ( ZUTC 6695 ), Chabahar Bay , Tis, in muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 ; 1 males ( SMF 51386), Chabahar Bay , Tis, in muddy bottoms, Coll. A. Dehghani, 2 Oct. 2016 .

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific and Mediterranean: from South Africa, to Red Sea, PG, GO, Japan, Australia, Hawaii, and eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Regional records. PG and GO: Iran (present study).

Habitat. Burrows in muddy bottoms, apparently often associated with gobies ( Anker & De Grave, 2016).

Remark. Our specimens all agreed well with Banner & Banner’s (1982) illustrations and exhibit the following distinctive morphological characters: 1) Second segment of antennular peduncle three times as long as third, 2) Major chela compressed and elongated and 3) Fingers of small chela about twice as long as palm.